I’ll never forget him.

Fabrizio Quattrochi, the brave Italian man in Iraq who told his brutish Islamofascist kidnappers at the moment of his murder that he had no intention of dying with a hood on his head and tried to tear it off, saying he would show them ‘how an Italian dies’ struck a fearsome blow against the cowards perpetrating the war on terror. He not only exposed them as inhumanly evil, he ruined their crummy snuff-murder propaganda movie, which was the reason they killed him in the first place.

His actions achieved the exact opposite effect of their evil intentions. His courageous response hurt terrorist recruiting and thereby terrorism’s cause. He struck a blow against the cheap cowardly acts of terrorism by showing authentic courage.

After all, who would want to join a bunch of animals after seeing the example of Fabrizio? Who would want to be a terrorist after that? Terrorists join terrorist movements to appear to be heroes to their peers. There can only be one hero. And Fabrizio showed them in the most real way possible who the hero was.

Terrorists lost, big. And in death, in martyrdom, really, Fabrizio Quattrochi made a strong impact on the world. No, I will never forget him.

Via Pajamas Media, I found a fine item from Winds of Change, noting that posthumously, Quattrochi has been awarded a gold medal for bravery by the Italian government. They have a few worthy links on the subject, like this one here, explaining why Fabrizio mattered.

I hope his name and his example grows in the world as the real heroism it was. It should.